Dwarf blackberry blooming

Has anyone successfully replanted green garlic from store and had it keep growing to become grown-ass adult garlic? Got some from coop yesterday, looks like scallions with purple strips, lots of thick roots still on. Stuck them in water to keep them fresh. Local so they probably have not been out of soil long. Will try with a couple just to see but wondering how likely...

#gardening
#permaculture
#SolarpunkSunday

#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #bookMastodon

If you are interested in #solarpunk #permaculture #SustainableLiving #ecofriendly #UrbanFarming #CommunityGardening
= alternative forms of living check out @faircompanies

Have a wonderful day

20 acre off-grid unfinished #permaculture property for sale near Tehachapi. https://tehachapimls.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=tehachapi&PRGNAME=MLSLogin&ARGUMENT=D2SumFj9tbHzN8Iyb7KN3lcYWwBjiMVxm0qLtZiJeGs%3D&KeyRid=1&SID

... featuring hand-dug swales... nearly 100 prickly pears, a fruiting mulberry tree, & 3 pomegranate trees. 3 earth ovens. A shared well provides water via a generator, flowing by gravity from a 1,500-gallon hilltop tank. Features include a stone and bamboo outdoor shower, composting toilet, gabion stone table, hammock, and an evolving cob-built outdoor space. The land offers abundant building materials, including clay, rock, sand, and gravel.

The upper level has two unfinished shipping container conversions. One serves as a studio with a reclaimed wood floor, earthen flooring, storage, and a wood stove. Adjacent is an unfinished cob kitchen and large earth oven with seating. Solar panels (700W) provide electricity. Outdoor features include a solar dehydrator, composting toilet, handmade juniper cabana, and terraces with mud sculptures. A spigot and screened area allow for outdoor showers. There's also a large unfinished cob table with a granite top.

A livable but unfinished cob and container hybrid tiny home offers a full outdoor kitchen with a double rocket stove, earth oven, and cob table with a granite top. The insulated home has bamboo floors, a tile walk-in closet, and an artistic cob entry. A root cellar dig is in progress, along with a circular cob smokehouse, a kiln with three rocket stoves, and a water-harvesting pond.

Hello friends!

I am Eden, I am #NewHere, and I like making things grow.

My particular interests include #TreePruning (think: fruit orchards, but also espaliers and bonsai when I'm feeling particularly spicy), figuring out how to grow a #Garden on a plot that is almost 100 % sand and gets little to no rain in the summer months, #BuildingSoil, and collecting interesting vegetable varieties (bonus points if they are black/purple or variegated).

I am a mix of about 50 % idealism and 50 % cynicism. The world is going to shit, but… that doesn't mean we can't try to have nice things while we watch the world burn.

Follow and connect if you want to exchange ideas, passions, seeds or just talk about STUFF. I speak German and English well enough to hold a conversation, other languages might need some more time to decipher.

Some random assortment of things that rotate through my hyperfocus lens in irregular intervals: #Permakultur #Permaculture #Streuobstwiese #Pomologie #Obstbaumschnitt #RegenerativeAgriculture #SoilBuilding #Compost #Kompost #Selbstversorgung #SolarPunk #KlimaKatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #Klimawandel #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Nachhaltigkeit #SolidarischPreppen #BGE #AnimalRights (to be extended)

An oldie but a goodie. This is an excellent introduction to the science of Ecology and how the living world works:

"Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective", Paul Colinvaux, 1979

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178080/why-big-fierce-animals-are-rare

#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #bookMastodon

Agir Culture & Sélection : Étapes d’Avril 2025 – Sols Vivants, Symbioses & Agriculture Régénérative

Découvrez comment #solsvivants & #symbiose favorisent l'#agricultureRegenerative ! Les racines modifient leur environnement via l'exsudation, stimulant la vie microbienne. Les prairies stockent jusqu'à 70 tonnes de carbone par hectare. Régénérez les sols avec broyats et légumineuses. #regenerativefarming #permaculture #soilhealth #sustainability #biodiversity
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/agir-culture-selection-etapes-davril-2025-sols-vivants-symbioses-agriculture-regenerative/

Simple triumphs..our first asparagus #AllotmentLife #Permaculture #Gardening

I wrote this introductory blog post a while ago and have worked up the courage to share it here. I use the topic of adoption of rooftop solar in Australia to reflect about the complex intersection between individual action and the wider socio-political context. See what you think: http://notaperfectpermie.com.au/why-i-finally-started-this-blog/

More than half of the trees I've planted are grown from seed, I guesstimate.

Hundreds of trees, dozens of species of tree seeds grown over the last 8 years. Sooo worth the wait...

My heart is overjoyed!

The SLO Beaver Brigade invites eager beavers of all ages to the Third Annual San Luis Obispo County Beaver Festival! This free event features food, vendors, children's activities, a beaver trivia contest, speakers, and a plethora of information on the benefits that beavers provide to us in our state and county. Live music by local violinist Miles "Danger" Kennedy and Cuyama Mama & the Hot Flashes. The Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade is a cosponsor and will have an exhibit table at the event.
https://www.sbpermaculture.org/

We are beginning a many years-long #permaculture project out in Veneta OR this year. The first projects will be a good-sized Mandala garden in Zone 1 and dryfarming using, beans, grains and squashes in Zone 5. If successful these are important as our #food systems become ever more challenged.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/researcher-stuns-farmers-revolutionary-crop-104511106.html

Today marks the start of the spring, 2025 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester, and the 2025 edition of the Expedition Instructor (XI) training program. This is our 65th long-term immersion program. I can see them all in my mind's eye, stretched out over the past 26 years. #FullTangLifestyle
#Maine
#Permaculture
#Bushcraft
#AroostookCounty
#MasardisMaine

https://blog.jackmtn.com/spring-2025-wilderness-bushcraft-semester-begins-jmb-blog-1932/

Spring 2025 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester Begins | JMB Blog 1932

Today marks the start of the spring, 2025 Wilderness Bushcraft Semester, and the 2025 edition of the Expedition Instructor (XI) training program. This is our 65th long-term immersion program. I can see them all in my mind’s eye, stretched out over the past 26 years.

For arrival day yesterday, mother nature decided to roll out the red carpet and we had five fresh inches of snow, but it warmed over the course of the day and much of it melted. Snow this time of year doesn’t last long, but it slows the long-term melt. There are two local spots where the snow takes the longest to melt. One is few hundred yards down the road that I call the Masardis glacier. It’s a spot that gets no southern exposure where big drifts accumulate because of the topography. I’ve seen snow there as late as May 18th. The other spot is the access road into the field school. Much of it also receives no sunlight from the south, and in a few spots the snow accumulates into deep drifts due to northwest winds. Also, the snow is packed from running the snowmobile up and down during winter programs. The result is in a few spots, it is some of the last snow to melt, and this year is no exception. As it is slowly melting and full of water, it is also heavy; too heavy for our small tractor to move with the loader. A few years I’ve paid a guy with a bulldozer to open the road up, but not this year. This year I’m waiting. In a few days, maybe a week, on a warm day where the snow is soft and slushy, I’ll put the truck into 4 wheel drive and try to make it through the deep spots. Once you get through once this time of year, the wheel ruts in the snow aid in the melting process and the rest disappears quickly.

Some years we’ve hauled people’s gear down the hill is sleds by hand. Some years we’ve hauled it in by snowmobile. After talking to the class we decided to stay up the hill for at least a few days. I’ve been developing the area behind the Athenaeum into a campsite and teaching area for a few years now and it has all of the comforts of camp: outhouse, hand pump well, cooking and fire area, and a few tent sites. The official name for the spot is Moonshine Hill, a name coined by a friend.

So today we start the long process of training the next generation of guides and instructors. Similar to a big expedition, after all the planning and preparation, it feels so good to get going. I can see the finish line nine weeks away, and we’ve got a long way to go to get there.

#FullTangLifestyle
#Maine
#Permaculture
#Bushcraft
#AroostookCounty
#MasardisMaine

@permaculture

#solarPunk #guerrilaGardening #guerrillaArboring #foodForest #mutualAid #permaculture
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